Almaty will become the cultural and tourist capital of the SCO for 2023-2024. The ministers of culture of the member countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization supported the proposal of Askhat Oralov, the Acting Minister of Culture and Sports of Kazakhstan, to assign a new status to the city, which he initiated at an online meeting of the heads of the ministries of culture of the SCO, Kazinform reports.
Louis Vuitton and Dior owner Bernard Arnault has been named the richest man in the world by Forbes. The businessman topped the magazine's annual rankings, displacing Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter CEO Elon Musk to second place. For the first time, a French citizen leads the ranking.
Deputy Foreign Minister of Uzbekistan Bakhromjon Aloev held a consultation meeting in Tashkent on Monday with diplomats of the CIS states - Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan, represented by Ambassador Yazguly Mammedov. This is stated in the press release of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
“We congratulate Turkmenistan on the successful holding of the elections of deputies of the Mejlis (parliament) of the 7th convocation. As a friendly neighbor and all-round strategic partner, China firmly supports Turkmenistan in following the path of development in line with its national realities,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said at a press conference on Tuesday, April 4, answering a question from People's Daily about about how China will comment on the recent parliamentary elections in Turkmenistan.
On Monday, April 3, 4 transactions totaling over $1 million and 252 thousand Turkmen manats were made at the auctions of the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan, ORIENT correspondent reports.
Turkmen students won 45 medals at the II Open International Student Internet Olympiad in Theoretical Mechanics organized by the State Energy Institute of Turkmenistan.
Azerbaijan has abolished the fee for the transportation of flammable materials, the city tax on heavy trucks, reduced fees for crossing the border and increased their limit to 41 tons, the Turkmen Embassy in the republic reports.
The Embassy of Turkmenistan in Kazakhstan announced the holding of a competition of readers in Turkmen, Kazakh, Russian, and English among students, according to the website of the diplomatic mission.
The Embassy of Uzbekistan in Turkmenistan has opened a polling station in Ashgabat for voting in a referendum on the draft Constitutional Law of Uzbekistan "On the Constitution of the Republic of Uzbekistan", which will be held on April 30. The announcement was published on April 4 by the Neutral Turkmenistan newspaper.
The current state of cooperation and prospects for further partnership were discussed during the meeting by representatives of the State Customs Service of Turkmenistan with a delegation of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). This is reported on the website of the Customs Department of Turkmenistan.
New Turkmenistan Trade Information Portal was launched today as part of the exhibition of the country's shopping complex that opened in Ashgabat. The website is designed to help small and medium-sized businesses quickly and in a convenient form to find information necessary for the export, transit and import of products.
State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan (SCRMET) extended the previously announced open tender in national currency for the development and implementation of digitalization of its activities.
Brent crude oil rose sharply by more than 8% after the sudden decision of Saudi Arabia and other OPEC+ members to reduce production, as well as Russia to extend its production cuts until the end of the year. This is reported by Reuters.
The American microblogging service and the social network Twitter has changed its logo. The blue bird was replaced by a well-known meme — an image of a dog of the Shiba Inu breed from the Dogecoin cryptocurrency sign.
A three-day exhibition of the shopping complex of Turkmenistan has opened in the expocenter of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Turkmenistan, where leading manufacturers of domestic food, consumer goods, industrial products, carpets and textiles demonstrate their potential.
